Responsibilities

• Manage calendar of promotional communications, including publications, email, and mailings, collaborating with Admissions team members to generate and edit content and meet deadlines for undergraduate student recruitment.
• Coordinate updating, proofing, printing, and logistics of marketing materials and publications.
• Coordinate large-scale printing and mailing logistics with off-campus partners.
• Collaborate with University Communications and printing partners to enhance, design, and update new student recruitment print, email, online, and electronic communications.
• Manage inventory, storage, logistics of publications and marketing materials.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with a wide variety of campus departments and partners.
• Extract and harmonize mailing data from university databases (such as Banner and the CRM).
• Oversee student address updates/corrections provided by the USPS in the CRM and MSU database (Banner).
• Assist the Director of Admissions with special projects, as needed

Requirements

• Professional experience with marketing or graphic design, and experience with project management and associated design programs such as Canva.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Graphic Design, or Communications.
• Strong editing and proofreading skills, with an eye for design, layout, and messaging in print communications.
• Demonstrated ability in effectively coordinating/organizing/prioritizing detailed work and meeting deadlines under minimal supervision, while maintaining a positive, effective, and professional approach.
• Demonstrated ability designing, formatting, and proofing business correspondence and electronic communications.
• Create and develop content to engage a diverse population of prospective students in the process of pursuing higher education.
• Experience, or interest and willingness to learn, data processing and extraction from databases such as Banner and the CRM.
• Demonstrated ability developing and maintaining detailed, accurate record keeping systems.
• Knowledge of and demonstrated ability in accurately following administrative policies, requirements, and procedures.
• Exercise initiative and good judgment with consistency.
• Effectively operate work-related equipment.
• Possess the ability to communicate effectively with employees and the public in person, over the phone and by email.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers and the public in a team-oriented environment.
• Ability to represent the Office of Admissions and its programs to others in a professional and courteous manner.

Preferred

• Experience with college/university student recruitment efforts.